From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 1 22:25:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A961065694 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:25:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com (hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com [71.74.56.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6EA68FC0A for ; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:25:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=of0N1ZI5e1MbLINZgvUA:9 a=2rxmR5eQCFlPM7ndeHn0C3wts5wA:4 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 75.87.219.217 Received: from [75.87.219.217] ([75.87.219.217:51240] helo=haran.polands.org) by hrndva-oedge04.mail.rr.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 2.2.2.39 r()) with ESMTP id 0A/E3-01157-5467E3B4; Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:25:10 +0000 Received: from [172.16.1.37] (sichem-wifi.polands.org [172.16.1.37]) by haran.polands.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o01MP8dP033752; Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:25:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Message-ID: <4B3E7644.2080805@polands.org> Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:25:08 -0600 From: Doug Poland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roland Smith References: <4B3E3121.6060106@polands.org> <20100101184219.6cd84f19.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100101182421.GA38610@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20100101193625.d25855d3.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100101201805.GA41413@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20100101201805.GA41413@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon Subject: Re: Advanced printing/layout tools X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:25:11 -0000 On 2010-01-01 14:18, Roland Smith wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 07:36:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: >> On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:24:21 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: >>> If the material is more than one page (which I suspect is the case her), a >>> tabular environment for the complete list isn't such a good choice. >>> >>> It would be a better idea to use a tabular environment for every single >>> entry. That way, every entry becomes a "box" for LaTeX to sort out how to fit >>> on a page >> >> That's a very good advice - I needed to do that, too. >> A tabular environment that grows larger than page height >> won't be truncated automatically. The smaller the "parts" >> of your document are ("boxes" that represent paragraphs, >> tabulars, figures etc.), the more easily LaTeX can manage >> them. In nearly every case, LaTeX does it right. >> >> An option is to check how many entries fit onm one page >> (or one column of the page) and then let awk count them. >> If the amount is reached, the tabular is \end'ed, the >> page / column break is given, and a new tabular is >> \begin'ed. > > Stacking boxes is TeX's job. And you should let it do that, because it is a > lot better at it than awk will ever be. ;-) > >>>> be installed, e. g. with "pkg_add -r teTeX". Of course, you >>>> stay in the free land of open source with this combination. >>> >>> I prefer the TeXLive distribution, but that is a matter of taste I guess. >> >> As far as I know, TeXLive cannot be installed automatically >> via FreeBSD's ports / packages subsystem. > > No, but installing it is easy. You mount the cd/dvd (image) and run > 'tlinstall.sh'. The latest TeXLive comes with FreeBSD i386 and amd64 binaries. > > The only thing is that you have to modify the ports (such as aucTeX) that > require TeX to point to the right bits. It's manageable. > > Roland > Thanks for the info so far. I have much to learn about LaTeX, that is certain. To complicate matters, the output will be on US Letter, landscape, multi-column, multi-sided, booklet format. No doubt LaTeX will handle the landscape, letter, and multi-column, but I'm not sure about booklet, multi-sided. I have some experience with print/psutils doing duplex, booklet printing. -- Regards, Doug